Congress put a one-year freeze on growth of the A.M.T. last week.
Watching Derrick Rose and the Bulls put a one-sided whipping on the Sacramento Kings at the United Center last week raised a question: Anaheim wants this team?
Mrs. Clinton pointedly noted that she voted in 2002 to put a one-year limit on Mr. Bush's war authority, an effort led by Mr. Byrd that failed.
The measure, which is being pushed by Senator McCain, would put a one-year moratorium on earmarks, or the age-old Washington practice of sneaking in funding for pet projects into a larger, often unrelated, bill.
A 1996 federal law, signed by President Clinton, put a one-year limit on the time death row inmates have to appeal to federal courts after exhausting their appeals in state courts.
The House defeated a Republican alternative that would have slowed spending on Medicare and other entitlement programs, permanently extended the tax cuts, invested more in military spending and put a one-year freeze on the Congressional pet projects known as earmarks.
Biotrial, a well-known contract research firm established in 1989, put a one-paragraph notice on its website today that said, without providing details, that during a first-in-man study, "serious adverse events related to the test drug have occurred in some subjects".
While most visas are issued for the longest possible length of time under law, the new policy will allow U.S. officials to put a one-year cap on visas for Chinese graduate students who are "studying in fields like robotics, aviation and high-tech manufacturing," according to the Associated Press.
"If you had to put a one-word descriptor on this water year, it would be 'dry,'" said Doug Carlson, a spokesman for the California Department of Water Resources.
